Telescoping guided shaft clutch arrangement



Sept. 4, 1956 E. F. HUDDLE TELESCOPING GUIDED SHAFT CLUTCH ARRANGEMENT Filed Aug. 25, 1954 INVENTOR. EDWW F HUDDLE BY P Q ATTY United States Patent TELESCOPIN G GUIDED SHAFT CLUTCH ARRANGEMENT Edwin F. Huddle, Elmwood Park, Ill., assignor to International Harvester Company, a corporation of New Jersey Application August 25, 1954, Serial No. 452,110 3 Claims. (Cl. 64-23) invention will become more apparent from the specification and drawings, wherein:

Describing the invention in assembly generally designated 2 section, preferably rectangular, as best seen in Figure 3. The shaft 8 is telesooped within the shaft 4 and the outer shaft 4 comprises an inner end pilot or guide portion '5 tangular socket portion '10 formed in the outer end of the shaft 4 and said socket portion 10 having the nonround or polygonal socket cavity 11 which receives the shaft 3 therein in the telescoped position of the shafts as shown in Figure 1. It will be readily appreciated that upon the shafts being extended the inner end of shaft 3 is piloted within the cylindrical portion of the inner 2,761,299 Patented Sept. 4, 1956 end outer shaft and rotates therein without drive being In order to can only connect in either of two positions separated apart.

It will be understood that the design herein shown and described is merely by way of illustration and not limitation and that the scope of the invention is to be gauged by the nature of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. in an interruptable drive transmitting arrangement, telescoping driving and other member. l 2. A discontinuous driving transmission, a driving and a driven shaft, one of said shafts being hollow and teleshafit therewithin, said one shaft having and having an internal socket of complementary cross-section to said according to claim 2 and further characterized in that the major cross-dimension of said socket and of said cylindrical pontion and of said other shaft being substantially equal.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Knapp et a1. Feb. 7, 1933 Cederstrom Mar. 2, 1937 

